J. S. Mill and the Despotism of Progress

On the futility of right-liberals who look to Mill for refuge from the progressivism that Mill helped create

I’m thrilled to be published for the first time in the indispensable journal UnHerd. Its editors invited me to comment on the legacy of J. S. Mill on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of his death on May 7. I distill some of my rather intense distaste toward right-liberal invocations of J. S. Mill, namely how his defense of free speech and expressio…